27-588: Gedney may refer to: Places [ edit ] Gedney, Lincolnshire , a village in England near Boston Gedney Island (Washington) , a small island in Possession Sound, off of the coast of Everett, Washington Other uses [ edit ] Gedney (surname) Gedney Clarke , name of several slave-owners in Barbados Gedney family ,
54-630: A family among the original settlers of Salem, Massachusetts USC&GS Thomas R. Gedney , originally USCS Thomas R. Gedney , a survey ship in service with the United States Coast Survey from 1875 to 1878 and with the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey from 1878 to 1915 Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Gedney . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
81-668: A few. Including, the still in service USAF F-16 Fighting Falcon , USAF B-1 Lancer , USAF B-2 Spirit , IAF Sukhoi Su-35 , USAF HH-60G Pave Hawk (from 56th Rescue Squadron ) and USAF A-10 Thunderbolt . At the present time current aircraft types such as the Eurofighter Typhoon , Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II ( No. 617 Squadron RAF ), USAF McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle / F-15E Strike Eagle (from 48th Fighter Wing ), BAE Hawk trainer and AgustaWestland Apache AH1 helicopters can be seen operating on
108-586: A rare upper chamber. At the east end of the north aisle are the remains of a 14th-century Jesse window . The church had 29 windows damaged in 2006, including the Jesse window. Vestments and an altar cloth were set alight but the fire did not take hold. Two culprits, 15 and 16 years old, were interviewed by police and admitted causing the damage. Parish public houses are the Chequers on Gedney Dyke Main Street,
135-555: Is a village, civil parish and electoral ward in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire , England. It is just to the south of the A17 Boston to King's Lynn road, 2 miles (3.2 km) east from Holbeach and 2 miles (3.2 km) north-west from Long Sutton . The parish stretches east to The Wash , its villages and hamlets including Dawsmere, Gedney Broadgate , Gedney Drove End , Gedney Dyke , Gedney Marsh, and
162-591: Is administered at a local level by a DIO Training Safety Officer (TSO), who is responsible for the day-to-day delivery of a safe training environment. RAF Air Command , who is the top level budget holder, control the core RAF station site which encompasses an area of 716 hectares. RAF air traffic control personnel staff the air range control tower supported by civilian range staff outsourced to Landmarc Solutions. The range extends over an area of 3,875 ha (14.96 sq mi), which includes 3,100 hectares of intertidal mudflats and 775 hectares of salt marsh ,
189-457: Is along Boatmere Creek then extends out to sea along Tycho Wing 's Channel, which is the outflow of the River Nene . This area is the far west of The Wash NNR . The boundary passes to the north of Lodge Farm, broadly following Boatmere Creek, south of Boat Mere Farm then along The Chase. It crosses Roman Bank at Sutton Corner, passing to the west of Lutton. It follows Docking's Holt Lane to
216-428: Is located beneath a protection berm focus on the target screen and run at high speed, catching the supersonic profile of the incoming projectile, and triangulating its position concurrent with counting the event. The AWSS sensor modes can display rounds per minute results and the location of the strafe projectiles in the target area. The angle of attack and the horizontal approach angle are also calculated. This result
243-657: The Bristol Blenheim , Fairey Battle , Hawker Hurricane , Supermarine Spitfire , de Havilland Mosquito , Westland Lysander , North American P-51 Mustang and Grumman Avenger , to now decommissioned succeeding jet aircraft types such as the Gloster Meteor , English Electric Canberra , de Havilland Venom , Hawker Hunter , USAF F-100D Super Sabre , Blackburn Buccaneer , McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II , USAF General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark , Harrier jump jet , SEPECAT Jaguar and Panavia Tornado , to name
270-426: The chancel are of Decorated style. During the rebuilding of the south aisle in 1890 a brass of a female (ca. 1390), with a puppy at her feet, was discovered. Also in the south aisle is a damaged 13th-century effigy of a cross-legged knight, conjectured to represent Falco D'Oyry, and Jacobean alabaster monuments of Adlard Welby, his wife Cassandra and their five children, erected in 1605. The south porch has
297-640: The Grade II listed Old Black Lion in Chapelgate, and the Rising Sun. RAF Holbeach Holbeach Air Weapons Range is a United Kingdom Ministry of Defence academic air weapons range (AWR) situated between Boston and King's Lynn in the civil parish of Gedney on The Wash , in Lincolnshire , eastern England . It was originally associated with RAF Sutton Bridge , but in the 1950s
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#1732776890359324-637: The air weapons range provides facilities for RAF and NATO -allied aircraft to practise dropping bombs and firing their aircraft weapons, including pre-deployment training. Since 1993 this has included night bombing and helicopter operations. The range training facilities are used by air force squadrons stationed in the United Kingdom and occasionally by units flying directly from airbases in Europe. An array of eight static range targets, include several retired merchant ships which have been beached on
351-484: The area formally known as "Holbeach Air Gunnery and Bombing Range", and colloquially simply as Holbeach Marsh Range. During the late 1950s, when RAF Sutton Bridge was reduced to a care and maintenance role, the coastal marshland air gunnery range was renamed to RAF Holbeach Bombing Range and it became later parented to RAF Marham as an Air Weapons Range (AWR) within RAF Strike Command . On 1 April 2006
378-592: The defence estates' administration was transferred to the Ministry of Defence —Defence Training Estate East (DTE East), located at West Tofts Camp in West Tofts near Thetford in Norfolk ; now renamed Defence Infrastructure Organisation East (DIO East). DIO are responsible for operational support—planning, building, maintaining and servicing the 'Holbeach Air Weapons Range' infrastructure. The air range estate
405-472: The east of Fleet Drain at this point is Gedney Broadgate. Gedney Grade I listed Anglican parish church is dedicated to St Mary Magdalene . Originating in the 13th century, additions and alterations carried-on into the 17th. It was considerably restored in 1890 however the spire to the tower was unfinished and left as a stump. The tower, 86 feet (26 m) to its parapet , has Early English lower stages and Perpendicular upper. The nave arcades and
432-511: The geographic extension of Gedney Church End. A hospital for five paupers, ( St Thomas Martyr ), was founded at Gedney, date unknown, and served from North Creake . It was dissolved around 1339. The redundant railway station was on the former east–west Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway . It closed in 1959. The Red House wind farm was built in 2006 with six MM82 wind turbines, its 12MW of power feeding 6,500 homes. Gedney and its parish lies on reclaimed fenland , making it one of
459-415: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gedney&oldid=1217855310 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Gedney, Lincolnshire Gedney
486-517: The most intensive crop-growing areas in the UK. To the west, the parish begins at the eastern end of the Fleet Hargate bypass, and includes the village's campsite and a few houses, bordering the parish of Fleet . The boundary passes close to the west of Gedney Dyke, and meets the parish of Holbeach. It passes just to the west of Gedney Dyke Farm then follows Fleet Haven, near to the wind farm to
513-464: The parish hamlets of Dawsmere and Gedney Drove End , but it does overlap with Holbeach to the west. On UK Civil Aviation Authority issued aeronautical charts the military Danger Area is found marked and identified by the code WRDA D207/II or the ICAO code EG D207 (Weapons Range Danger Area or United Kingdom Danger - 207), the danger altitude is usually up to twenty-three thousand feet AMSL . In
540-416: The part of the parish along the start of The Wash would be extremely foolish and is out of bounds due to the bombing range. The limit of the parish finishes between Gat Sea End and Old South Middle. There are observation towers on the sea wall for the bombing range. The control tower is on the sea wall towards Dawsmere and Gedney Drove End. Dawsmere Creek extends out towards The Wash. The boundary with Lutton
567-508: The past Holbeach Air Gunnery Bombing Range has served the intense activity of many types of British and foreign military aircraft using its target training range facilities. For example, from now historical propeller biplane types such as the Armstrong Whitworth Siskin , Hawker Woodcock , Gloster Grebe , Gloster Gamecock , Fairey III , Fairey Flycatcher , Bristol Bulldog , Hawker Fury and Gloster Gauntlet . Then
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#1732776890359594-849: The range at various times of the day, including on occasions USAF Bell Boeing CV-22B Osprey (from 7th Special Operations Squadron ), USAF Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II ( 495th Fighter Squadron ), Boeing Chinook , AgustaWestland AW159 Wildcat , AugustaWestland Merlin and Aerospatiale Puma HC helicopters. The range also hosts frequent forward air control (FAC) or joint terminal attack controller (JTAC) exercises. RAF Holbeach also has facilities (strafing courts) for scoring aircraft strafing runs (aircraft firing runs on ground targets) using acoustic sensor scoring systems. The ground strafing targets consist of several four-metre square nets, each with an orange centred square bullseye . The Acoustic Air Weapons Scoring System (AWSS) which
621-437: The sands of The Wash for this purpose. Observation towers ("Quadrants") parallel to the target line are manned and allow the fall of aircraft ordnance to be calculated for accuracy by means of triangulation . The range includes a helicopter landing pad near the main control tower and since 2010 a new range headquarters building. Most of the air range, including the control tower and four observation towers (Quadrants) are in
648-589: The south. At Leedsgate Bridge, west of Inley Drove Farm, it meets the parish of Fleet. North of Leedsgate Bridge, the parish follows Fleet Drain, to the left of Rookery Farm, and it crosses the B1165 and the Little South Holland Drain at Raven's Gate Bridge. The boundary follows Fleet Drain north-eastwards alongside Raven's Drove. The two sides of the boundary are respectively known as Fleet Fen and Gedney Fen. Fleet Drain also follows Delph Bank. To
675-651: The west of Long Sutton, meeting the B1359 at the Garnsgate Road junction. It follows the B1359 (former A17) to the west, then crosses the A17 then follows a drain and Garnsgate Road where it borders Long Sutton and partly follows National Cycle Route 1 . It passes to the north of Moorswood Farm, then follows Benderslough Drove and then the South Holland Main Drain , where it borders Sutton St James to
702-415: The west of nearby Red House Farm. It deviates to the east from Fleet Haven and passes to the west of (another) Red House Farm then rejoins Fleet Haven just south of Wards Farm. Fleet Haven runs out of land and meets the sea wall. In the parish, and close to the east is the base of RAF Holbeach which is accessed via Durham's Road . The parish extends out on the mud flats along Fleet Haven Outfall. To access
729-491: Was named Royal Air Force Holbeach before adopting its current name in the mid 2000s when control was passed to the Defence Training Estate . The remote air range opened in 1926 as an air gunnery range attached to and established by Royal Air Force Practice Camp Sutton Bridge (later named RAF Sutton Bridge ). Use of the range began on 27 September 1926, with biplanes firing and dropping bombs over
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